Weight Gain And Nortriptyline

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Updated November 25, 2016

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Analisa Says:Tue, Nov 01 '16, 1:40 AM

Hi. I've been taking nortriptyline for 3 years now. I am 18 year old female. I originally started with only 10 mg and have slowly increased the dose over time to now i take 45mg per night. The reason i first had it was for nerve pain and also teenage depression (where i struggled to attend school). I consider myself as made very good progress over the past 3 years, the last 2 being at school. In 2014, i was only attending school 2-3 days per week, in 2015 i attended 3-4 days per week. And now in 2016, i have a good job and work about 45 hours per week, going to work every day. I also keep to a rigid fitness schedule with exercising 5 days per week for at least half an hour (either running 3.5 to 5km or doing Kayla Itsines workouts). And i have kept to this for all of the 2016 year so far. Now however, the problem i face is weight gain. It seems like no matter how much exercise or dieting i do, i cannot keep my weight down. I weigh 65kg, am 159cm tall. This year i have increased 7kgs in weight. Which i feel is not a very good trend! I don't know whether i should try and come off nortriptyline and try something else or what to do. Can anyone offer me any suggestions? I would be glad to try supplements, at the moment i take a stress and energy supplement and also thyroid support. I did also try to decrease my dose to 25mg, but this did not last as i could not keep to my schedule of fitness and work hours. Please help me as to what steps i should take next! i don't exactly want to keep taking the nortriptyline as i feel this is the reason for my weight gain. But i don't know what to do if i didn't take it! I would be glad of any suggestions :)

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